'Sadistic': George Conway rages against 'psychopathic and psychotic' Trump

George Conway, the longtime enemy of Donald Trump, unloaded on the president in a new post, calling him "at once both psychopathic and psychotic," among many other things, in response to recent remarks about Democrat-run cities being destroyed.

Trump sparked yet another controversy during a political rally this week, as he tried to persuade voters in Nebraska that the soaring costs resulting from his war with Iran were worth it. As he made his pitch, he jokingly suggested that he would be fine with it if Iran attacked and wiped out Los Angeles and San Diego, two major West Coast cities in California led by Democrats, calling it a fair price to pay.

"It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe,” Trump said. “They can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay, and it’s going to be over very soon. It's essentially almost over with, and they might keep going a little long. You know, they always say they have a big threshold for pain. They need it.”

Alarm and condemnation for the remarks were swift, with California Gov. Gavin Newsom calling the comments "deranged and dangerous" and "not normal."

In his own post to X reacting to the remarks, Conway, an outspoken conservative critic of the president and co-founder of The Lincoln Project, pulled few punches.

"You can reasonably dispute the meaning of a lot Trump says because he’s so incoherent and inarticulate," Conway wrote. "But what you can’t reasonably dispute is that he is a sadistic and delusional narcissistic sociopath, at once both psychopathic and psychotic, who is lacking in morality, conscience, empathy, remorse, and impulse control, and whose only concern if a city (in any country, including ours) were to be wiped off the face of the Earth, would be how it affects him."

MS NOW host Joe Scarborough was similarly appalled by the remarks during a Tuesday broadcast, saying it did not make any difference even if Trump was joking.

"There will be some, 'Oh, he's just joking. He's just.' Well, okay. Well, great,” he said. “What other American presidents in our history, post-Civil War, have called for the destruction of entire cities? Joking? If this is your joke, this is your idea of a presidential joke, joking about the killing of 10 million or so people. Is that where we are? Because I thought it was bad enough when he was joking in front of California Republicans several years ago, I think it was in [20]22, about an elderly man getting the hell beaten out of him and almost dying. Paul Pelosi, remember, [Trump] led those [laughing in] California."